Christine Carter on Teaching Kids Gratitude

UC Berkeley’s Media Relations department this week is featuring an interview it conducted with Christine Carter in anticipation of Thanksgiving, offering parents some tips on how to help kids practice gratitude.

Christine briefly explains why gratitude is a skill kids should learn and how parents can approach gratitude with their kids—even (or especially) teenagers. She elaborates on that last point in her Raising Happiness post this week.

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